Integration of the BDS in SAP Applications (SAP Library - Business Document Service (BC-SRV-BDS))

Integration of the BDS in SAP Applications

Purpose

You integrate the BDS into your SAP application if you wish to use the BDS functions. For more information, see Business Document Service.

Prerequisites

Your SAP application involves documents.

You do not have any special requirements concerning the BDS document management.

Process Flow

Analysis

This analysis phase involves specifying general questions, as well as the scope of the intended integration of the BDS into the relevant R/3 application:

What is the business background?
For which release is the integration of the BDS to be completed?
What sorts of documents are to be stored?

For example: Bitmaps, Office documents.

How many documents are there likely to be?
Does the SAP3 application need its own administration tables?
What delivery class are the administration tables to have?
What is the application class ID?
What sort of application class is involved?

Business Object Repository
R/3 Class Library
Others

Is a transport connection required?
Is the application context client-specific?
Which of the BDS methods are likely to be used?

Example

CALL_NAVIGATOR (you want to call the BDN) or
CREATE_VARIANT_WITH_FILES (you want to create a variant and transfer the file name simultaneously).

Are specific attributes required? If so, then which attributes?

Discussion and Decision

In this phase, your project team discusses how your requirements can best be realized. The team decides on the data model to be used (see also Content Models) and the methods to be implemented for your application.

Implementation

You integrate the methods required for your application. The methods provided are described in the sections under General Methods and Specific Methods.